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n Since 2007, a new agreement between UCL and the national funding agency (IISN) has been signed. n New UCL research lines around the cyclotrons u High energy physics, in collaboration with the microelectronic department, -study of the radiation hardness of semiconductor detectors used in LHC -development of radiation hard components u High energy physics / nuclear physics Use of radioactive beams for the neutrino beams (European collaboration : Beta-beams)

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NuPECC Brussels 2009 What about the future of the LLN RIB facility? n The nuclear physics program has been stopped: o UCL: no new academic position in nuclear physics. o EU: end of the EURONS program November 2008: last radioactive beam ? ~720 h of RIBs in 2008 n Interest of several EU-groups of RIB users.... n The facility could be restarted IF supported by external fundings (EU?)...